php - How to force download of a file?
Question
I'm looking to add a "Download this File" function below every video on one of my sites. I need to force the user to download the file, instead of just linking to it, since that begins playing a file in the browser sometimes. The problem is, the video files are stored on a separate server.
Any way I can force the download in PHP?
7 answers
solution1
49 ACCPTED 2009-02-10 06:53:35
You could try something like this:
$file_name = 'file.avi';
$file_url = 'http://www.myremoteserver.com/' . $file_name;
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"");
readfile($file_url);
exit;
I just tested it and it works for me.
Please note that for readfile to be able to read a remote url, you need to have your fopen_wrappers enabled.
solution2
5 2015-05-08 05:07:16
Tested download.php file is
function _Download($f_location, $f_name){
$file = uniqid() . '.pdf';
file_put_contents($file,file_get_contents($f_location));
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($f_name));
readfile($file);
}
_Download($_GET['file'], "file.pdf");
and the link to download is
<a href="download.php?file=http://url/file.pdf"> Descargar </a>
solution3
3 2009-02-10 07:57:18
Try this:
<?php
$FileName = '/var/ww/file.txt';
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="'.$FileName.'"');
readfile($FileName);
The key is the header() . You need to send the header along with the download and it will force the "Save File" dialog in the user's browser.
solution4
0 2010-03-05 22:56:54
<?php
$FileName = '/var/ww/file.txt';
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="'.$FileName.'"');
readfile($FileName);
using this code. is it possible to save the file name to what you want. for example you have url: http://remoteserver.com/file.mp3 instead of "file.mp3" can you use this script to download the file as "newname.mp3"
solution5
0 2017-09-25 23:52:48
<?php
$file_name = 'video.flv';
$file_url = 'http://www.myserver.com/secretfilename.flv';
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"");
echo file_get_contents($file_url);
die;
?>
solution6
0 2019-08-20 08:21:17
I don't know this is the best way or not but I like that, short & simple.
If you want to download file when you visit URL , you can do like below
<a href="resume.pdf" download></a>
<script>document.querySelector('a').click();</script>
solution7
0 2020-06-19 21:43:12
index.php
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>download</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="download.php?file=ID_do_arquivo"> download </a>
</body>
</html>
.htaccess
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
deny from all
download.php
$file = "pdf/teste.pdf";
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit();
}
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